[News] International Force in Gaza: Protection or cover for genocide

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  International Force in Gaza: Protection or cover for genocide

Thursday 6-November-2025

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GAZA, (PIC)

As the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip 
approaches, the term “international force” has returned to the 
forefront, and the nature of that force, the countries participating in 
it, its authorities and legitimacy have become the main topic of 
discussion in the global political arena and even among Palestinians in 
Gaza.

A few days ago, the US president Donald Trump announced that a 
“stability enforcement force in Gaza” will be deployed soon and quickly, 
saying that leaders of this force are currently being selected; his 
foreign minister Marco Rubio revealed that arrangements are underway to 
mandate a multinational force, but he conditioned this on the force 
being acceptable to the Israeli side.

The American news site Axios reported a US draft at the UN Security 
Council to issue a resolution to form an international force with broad 
powers in Gaza under Trump’s post-war plan for the Strip. According to 
the site, a draft US resolution to create an international force in Gaza 
has been circulated to several Security Council members, and the draft 
grants the United States and participating countries wide authorization 
to govern Gaza and provide security there. The draft calls for the 
“Peace Council” in the Strip to remain in place until at least the end 
of 2027.

The document states that the international force will be tasked with 
securing Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt, protecting civilians and 
humanitarian corridors. Its duties would include destroying and 
preventing the reconstruction of military infrastructure, in addition to 
disarmament, and training a Palestinian police force that would partner 
with the international force in its mission.

According to a US official, the international force would be an 
enforcement force rather than a peacekeeping force, and would include 
troops from several countries; it will be created in consultation with 
the “Peace Council” in Gaza.

Hamas, through the head of its negotiating delegation Khalil al-Hayya, 
confirmed that the Palestinian factions accept UN forces as forces to 
separate and monitor the borders and oversee the ceasefire, stressing 
that a UN decision will determine the type of these forces, their 
duration and their working mechanisms.

This factional and Hamas position conflicts with the American and 
Israeli vision, which wants the international force to disarm Hamas and 
impose security in the Strip.

In this report, guests of the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) 
present their readings of the nature of this force, its tasks, their 
view of how it would operate, and how suitable it is for realities in 
the Gaza Strip and whether its work would be compatible with the 
Palestinian factions present there.

Completion of the Israeli army’s mission

Military expert Major General Yusuf Al-Sharqawi said that the proposed 
“executive force” is not a supervisory force like UNIFIL in southern 
Lebanon, whose role is limited to recording violations; rather, it is a 
“multi-purpose” force intended to be operational in nature, meaning it 
would carry out field missions that affect Gaza’s internal situation.

Al-Sharqawi explained in a special interview with the PIC that the 
nature of this force as presented by Washington suggests that it aims to 
complete the missions of the Israeli army after its withdrawal or 
redeployment, which makes it an extension of the occupation with new 
tools, especially given the Israeli refusal that this force be placed 
under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.

He emphasized that not placing the force under Chapter VII means it will 
not be a force for separation or peacekeeping, but an executive tool 
with an international cover, which carries dangerous signs regarding the 
real objectives of its formation.

He believes the formula of the “executive force” currently being 
proposed contains a direct targeting of Palestinians under the pretexts 
of security control or overseeing reconstruction, but in practice it 
opens the door to a new security presence that controls the Strip and 
restricts Palestinian national decision-making.

Major General Al-Sharqawi believes the Palestinian and Arab–Islamic 
alternative is a joint understanding that hands administration of the 
Strip to an Arab–Islamic force that works to separate and monitor the 
disengagement within a political framework that guarantees not repeating 
the occupation’s experience or internationalizing the Strip.

Al-Sharqawi stressed that the most dangerous thing in the US proposal is 
the possibility of using this force as an international cover to carry 
out the Israeli tasks indirectly, which would constitute a violation of 
Palestinian sovereignty and a threat to the future of any just settlement.

He sees that confronting this scenario requires a unified Palestinian 
and Arab position that rejects any formula that affects national will, 
and affirms that security in Gaza is not imposed from outside but built 
through internal consensus and Arab–Islamic support.

It must be acceptable to Palestinians

For his part, military expert Major General Mohammed Al-Masri said that 
any force being discussed for formation or deployment in the Gaza Strip 
must be a peacekeeping force, not one that imposes peace, stressing that 
its primary mission should focus on the Gaza borders, with a supporting 
role for internal police forces, within clear and defined authorities.

Al-Masri explained in a special interview with the PIC that it is 
necessary for this force to be accepted by the Palestinian people, and 
to be composed of neutral Arab and Islamic countries that have good 
relations with the Palestinians, not of forces arriving to the Strip 
with the aim of imposing security according to the Israeli vision or 
disarming the factions, which he described as an internal issue to be 
discussed within the framework of national negotiations in a way that 
preserves the national symbolism of the resistance.

He added that recent developments indicate that a project is currently 
being circulated at the Security Council regarding the formation of this 
force.

He noted that opinions are divided about the force’s tasks: Israel wants 
it as a tool to control the field, manage public order and disarm, while 
the Arab group and the Group of Eight in Istanbul believe its role 
should be to protect the Palestinian people, separate the parties and 
assist them humanitarianly.

Al-Masri believes that the project in its current American–Israeli 
wording raises real fears that the situation could turn into a 
trusteeship system over the Strip, while confirming that Palestinians 
welcome the presence of any Arab or Islamic force if it is coordinated 
with the Gaza police apparatus and operates within respect for 
Palestinian sovereignty and protecting the people rather than the reverse.

A force sized to Israeli needs to complete the genocide

Palestinian writer and political analyst Mohammed Al-Qeeq believes that 
the United States wants the international force to be sized according to 
Israeli–American criteria, to be an alternative to the Palestinian 
Authority and Hamas, and also an alternative to the Israeli military 
presence in Gaza.

Al-Qeeq told the PIC that he believes America wants this force to wash 
away the Israeli occupation’s crime of genocide committed in Gaza, so 
that the next confrontation will be between Palestinians and this force, 
and when that happens, the narrative becomes that Hamas and the 
resistance factions are the problem, not the occupation that committed 
the genocide.

Al-Qeeq explained that this is the vision the United States wants to 
take to the Security Council without details, seeking approval first and 
then manipulating the details as it pleases.

He expected that there would be no consensual path between this 
international force and the Palestinians, reasoning that its presence is 
grounded in an Israeli–American framework to disarm the resistance, 
delay reconstruction, and impose new conditions on Palestinians, not 
only regarding arms and resistance but also further concessions on 
curricula, handling of Palestinian identity, and more.

Al-Qeeq expressed his fear of the US seeking to obtain a Security 
Council resolution to form the force, saying that the concern lies in an 
attempt to legitimize what this force would do under the guise of being 
an international force, especially since it is tied to law enforcement 
and not to peacekeeping.

He affirmed that the American administration is going to the Security 
Council “to obtain a license for genocide through the international 
community and powers, to absolve the Israeli occupation of the crime it 
committed.”

The PIC guest believes the Palestinian split is the foundation for 
American and Israeli control of the scene, stressing that Palestinian 
consensus would be the graveyard of this force and of the 
American–Israeli plan.

It has become clear that the US did not stop the war out of concern for 
the people of Gaza or out of a suddenly awakened humanitarian impulse, 
but to absorb global anger and to continue the genocidal war in another 
form, with wide international support through the same institutions that 
remained incapable over two full years of genocide of doing anything to 
lift the suffering from the oppressed in the Gaza Strip.

However, the complex scene Gaza is experiencing today, and what is being 
planned and intended for it and its people, could become a positive 
turning point if the Palestinians break the Israeli–American veto on 
Palestinian reconciliation, and confront all these plans with a 
comprehensive national vision away from all the small and peripheral 
disputes that pale in comparison to what is being plotted for the entire 
Palestinian cause.

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